Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.

the new (beta) @penpot.app renderer is such a huge improvement. snappier in a 100-tab browser window from hell than the Figma desktop app with a single file open. i know i keep saying this but if you design for the web and you haven't tried penpot you owe it to yourself to give it a whirl.

You can fundamentally rewire your brain to properly understand CSS layout... for $34.50. Can’t say fairer than that! One day left.

Every Layout is a reference I use daily. Complete CSS was a great level-up. Mindful Design is priceless. Andy's work, and by extension the Piccalilli team, delivers knowledge that will be with you for the rest of your life, not just until the next framework appears. I can't recommend it enough.

spending over a decade getting pretty good at doing "generative things" only to land in the decade of generative slop is ... not ideal

Just in from #Adobe: “Your Creative Cloud Pro subscription will increase from €29.99 to €65.54 starting next month.” Just so they can push more AI crap on us I suppose? That's insane! Happy to finally pull the plug there.

One Hundred and twenty-one days to go before the launch of our new drop of art pieces. #art #design #mickwout #gallery #artproject #textile #porcelain #paper #humancondition #studiolife

Built with CUBE CSS, Every Layout and stuff learned in Complete CSS. It’s of course, lightning fast and the UI works with the browser. I love to see it. https://fluck.site/

Just what we need, more insanity.

For the past months I've been working on @fluck.site and finally I have something to show for it. Fluck is going to be open sourced in 2026. #indieweb

Just released Rosetta v1.0.0, an #i18n shard for #CrystalLang, about four years after its inception. Aside from a some QoL improvements it now also supports key nesting, a feature that was on the wishlist for a very long time. github.com/wout/rosetta

Worrying to see that so much of our internet, including critical infrastructure, is dependent on AWS. I get that cloud services are easier to maintain for global projects, but this level of concentration risk isn't healthy.

Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!

Ugh, Christian Nationalism is spreading like a disease. humanists.uk/2025/10/09/h...

If DDOS attacks are illegal, AI crawler spamming should be too. They’re wearing down the most useful parts of the web in their quest to produce the least useful.

I've got a 19-year history with Ruby on Rails but in less than two weeks my view on the framework has completely changed. Working with it just feels icky right now. A great time to embrace newer, more inclusive alternatives like @hanamirb.org and @luckyframework.org. I'm already enjoying the change.

#rails folks, here's an open letter asking the Rails Core to cut ties with DHH and hard fork Rails to a new project with proper governance. You can sign with a pull request. Let's show that there's demand for this, and that the community won't appease racists […]

Just a reminder that tech is political and putting your money into projects run by problematic people says quite a lot.

The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

A great write-up about the current dramas unfolding in the #Ruby community. Something needs to change and I believe that if we align and coordinate ourselves, we can make it happen. DHH has been too dominant for too long now.

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

I'm about 1/3 through the book right now and very much looking forward to this course. I think it'll be the perfect companion course for practical accessibility.

Instagram's new “Ad Breaks” make the Android app completely unusable, it's ridiculous. Where are the limits? When will the majority of users say “hell no!”? #ludovicagram

Starting an email with: " Hi there, I noticed you haven’t opened our emails in a while." … is just creepy.

Dark Castle gave me chills, especially this scene. Never managed to get far in this game because it was so incredibly hard.

Over the past few days I've been moving projects from #GitHub to #Codeberg and it's a surprisingly smooth transition. I expected to make a lot of concessions but almost everything I need is there. Including a free CI for open-source projects, pretty crazy.

Love failures like these!

I've signed up to GitHub on 21 July 2009, a bit more than 16 years ago. I think it's time to start moving out, beginning with my personal projects. Honestly, I was expecting something like this to happen. I'm surprised it took this long. #GitHub #RIP

Legitimate slop.

For a few months I have been working on a new web app. I've had the idea for years now, but it's such a massive undertaking that I never found the courage to actually go for it, until this year. Now I'm designing the first landing page. These #paper #cutouts give a good idea of what the app is about

The moment I posted about 1001 Pieces, the project I’ve been thinking about for years, I felt it. That quiet presence at my side. An old friend. Or maybe more like a shadow. Doubt! More on: www.mickmichel.com/1001-pieces/... #PaperArt #SlowArt #mickmichel #art #doubt #papersculpture

Practical Accessibility is one of the best courses I did lately. Going in I thought I knew a bit about the subject, but I knew nothing. It was a humbling experience filled with laughs, facepalms, and the occasional rooster crow. If you feel lost when it comes to #a11y, this is the course for you.

Open Web Advocacy is on the ground at the European Commission's 2025 DMA workshop 🇪🇺, pushing hard for real browser competition, web apps and a free & open web. Stay tuned for updates!

This little guy has been running around on my laptop for most of the day.

Three continuous lines in cyan, magenta, and yellow, each with slightly different distortion values. This is the first finished plot. It came a bit too dense, so I'm going to make a new one today with more whitespace. #penplotter #genart #opart

Finalising the second layer (magenta) on this piece. This is a first try and I need to make some tweaks still. #penplotter #genart #opart

We started on a huge, exciting project and there's very little time for other things right now (more on that later). But today I finally got around to plotting a few iterations of this sketch. Cold-pressed cotton paper with CMYK ink using fountain pens and pencil. #penplotter #genart #linedrawing

Publish your sites directly from Figma! Let AI write your blog posts! Vibe code your authentication layer! Eat protein paste instead of food! Stop showering and shit your pants! 🎉 Path of least resistance 2025!

Recently started buying CDs again. I forgot how lovely the whole experience is. In part the audio quality, but best of all are the booklets. Some of them really stand out.

Just finished Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Understandable that Zuckerberg wants a ban because it puts him in a terrible light. The things Facebook did, and didn't do, for the sake of the bottom line, just horrifying. #carelesspeople

Building further previous experiments, these are quadtrees built with points derived from generative mountain landscapes. #svg #genart

Inner Circle - Oil on Wood. As we age, our circle shrinks—odd, since we know more. Friends, acquaintances, and family drift away, leaving us seeking like-minded connections. We no longer have the energy for uninteresting things. Colors and contrasts fade, but in return, we find peace #painting #art

CATCH, a childhood memory in #sculpture! I've never been a fan of balls or ball sports. Yet, somehow, whenever I walk where they're being played, a ball always manages to find me. It's not fear that I harbor, but rather a deep dislike for being startled. #softscuplture #art #textileart #queer

Karl Gorath, a #gay survivor of Auschwitz, was arrested in 1938 for his sexuality and endured imprisonment at Neuengamme and Auschwitz before gaining freedom in 1945 His story reminds us to work toward a kinder world and ensure such tragedies never happen again. #screenprint #print #lgbtq #gayrights

One day, as I was rummaging through my studio, I couldn't help but notice the abundance of assorted paper scraps lying around. Inspired by this, I decided to craft ladies from these scraps. Here are just a few of the creations I made. #collage #collageart #reuse #recycle #portrait #paperart

Further experimentation with quadtrees. It's interesting to see the emergence of flow fields when the rectangles get very small. Colours used here are just CMY, but one or two colour components are randomly diluted fifty per cent to get more variation. #genart #generativeart #penplotter #svg

The past few weeks I've been moving services away from US providers to their European counterparts. Now I'm looking into buying only European-made products as well. For anyone moving in the same direction, this is a great resource: www.buy-european-made.eu

Fun with quadtrees. I wanted to implement this for a long time but somehow never came to. These are configured to allow just one point per tile. #genart #svg